A critique of perpetual 'improved Git integration' in IDEs, arguing developers should learn core Git instead of waiting for tools.
Guide to setting up Microsoft Entra Conditional Access policies for the new Account Recovery feature, enhancing security with identity verification.
Explains Microsoft Security Baselines for Windows Server 2025, their purpose, and how to use the Security Compliance Toolkit for deployment and management.
A technical tutorial on using Azure Arc to centrally manage and monitor AWS EC2 virtual machine instances from within the Azure control plane.
An analysis of Goose, an AI coding agent, highlighting its unique features like reusable workflow recipes and how it differs from other AI development tools.
Explores how AI will expand knowledge work by making tasks cheaper, leading to new projects and activities we don't do today.
Explores why category theory requires collections larger than sets to be interesting, discussing foundational issues and cardinality.
A review and refinement of the five fundamental pillars of test automation, emphasizing core principles over fleeting tool trends.
A technical guide on dynamically loading and defining custom web elements using JavaScript, focusing on naming conventions and modular architecture.
Explores combining SMT solvers CVC5 and Z3 using the Nelson-Oppen method, focusing on theory combination and purification.
A 2025 year-in-review of key Apache data projects: Iceberg, Polaris, Parquet, and Arrow, detailing their major updates and future roadmap.
Introduces Agent-Matrix, an open-source OS for managing autonomous AI agents as living systems, aiming to eliminate maintenance.
A developer creates a scraper to track the latest versions of GitHub Actions, helping coding agents avoid stale workflows.
A weekly roundup of recent updates from Microsoft's tech ecosystem, including .NET, Azure DevOps, GitHub, and Visual Studio.
A developer builds a travel itinerary web app for his wife using AI coding assistants like Claude, exploring the 'vibe coding' approach and its pros/cons.
Explains why Task.Delay in C# fails for delays over 49.7 days and provides a workaround for long-running timers.
A developer's reflection on how AI coding agents, particularly GPT-5 and Codex, have dramatically accelerated software development by handling routine coding tasks.
Author details how Substack's content filter blocked a newsletter containing a SQL injection exploit example, citing a 'Network error'.
Analyzes the financial realities and motivations behind paid technical speaking at conferences, including who is the 'product' and why speakers do it.
A developer explains their shift from Arch Linux's AUR to using Flatpak on Debian, driven by security concerns and system stability.
